The Empire tool is open source and has a Git repository. We can clone the Git repository from GitHub by executing the following command:
git clone https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire
The following files reside in the Empire directory:
The Empire Framework is written in Python, so we first need to install the Python dependencies. Empire already has an installation script, which can be viewed in the setup directory (~/Empire/setup/). The installation file is a simple Bash script which we can execute by using the following command:
./install.sh
This script will check and install all the packages and dependencies required by the Empire framework. Once the installation is complete, you'll see a Setup complete! message as shown in the following screenshot:
We need root privileges to run Empire so that it can start the listeners on system...